Blurkers and Comments

You know how you sometimes do something that feels good, but then you don’t quite feel right about it, not that you did anything bad, per se, just that maybe you feel like you should have done something more. For example: you eat that krispy kreme donut with milk but you didn’t even get out of the car to get it, you went through the drive through …LAZY! And fattening. Or let’s say you get that massage from your husband, but then you just roll over and go to sleep; you know he expected you to rub his back too, but you were too LAZY.

Well that’s the kind of thing I’m talking about here. Maybe it’s just that you don’t know what to do, like maybe you go to the bathroom in an office building where you are having a job interview, and, perhaps using too much t.p. you clog the toilet, and it over flows. Well, you put a sign on the door, written with lipstick on a paper towel and stuck to the door with chewing gum, but you didn’t plunge the toilet or really tell anyone who could do something about it. I mean, who would you tell? How embarrassing would that be? What if it impacted your job interview? I’m speaking from experience here; you don’t want to go there. In this case, it’s not so much laziness as it is you’re not quite sure WHAT to do.

So I am here to help you! You may not know this, but I have a large readership of my blog. Really, I do. And it is international – I have readers from Canada, England, and Norway. I have ways of tracking who visits my blog, well, not who exactly, but how many different people check my blog, how often it is checked, and where they are from. Most of my readership comes from Boise/Meridian, but then I have some in California, Ohio, Maryland, Alaska, North Carolina, Tennessee, Washington, Utah, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, and Colorado. Yeah, wow, who knew!? I don’t even know people in half of those states. My goal is to have readers from every state. Actually, that’s not my goal, I just typed that because it sounds good.

I would call the majority of my readership "Blurkers". That means they are just "lurking" on my blog, and not commenting. This leaves me wondering, "Why do they read my blog?" "Do they like my blog?" "Do they agree or disagree?" "Do they find it humorous, or am I just laughing at myself, by myself?" A blurker is a blog lurker who doesn't comment. Do you really want to be a blurker? No?, I didn't think so.

Okay, I am here to help you. You may not realize that bloggers, like myself, love comments. Comments = Chocolate! We love chocolate!!!!

Comments = love, acceptance, happiness, approval, validation, sunshine, happy songs, chocolate.

So you want to leave a comment but you don’t know how. I am here to help. First of all, it is EASY. You don’t need an account or anything.

Step 1) Read the blog. Enjoy it, laugh along, and think about how it makes you feel , or what you think about it. Do you agree with it, do you disagree? Do you have a similar tale to tell? Does it remind you of something?

Step 2) Decide to give me some chocolate – Yum Yum! This is where you have to take action. Look at the blog, at the bottom of the post about which you'd like to comment you will see this:

Click where it says "0 Comments". It might say "5 comments" or some other number, it's okay, just click there.

Step 3) Read the comments that are existing, if you want, then scroll to the bottom and type your comment in the space provided. See example:

Leave comment at first red arrow:

If you do not have an account, include your name in the comment section (see lower red arrow).

Step 3) Type in the word verification code.

Step 4) Choose your "identity". If you have a google account (a gmail account) you can use it. You can add a picture to it, which will then also appear with your comment and your name.

If you don't have a google account, you can post your comment "anonymous"-ly. You can just include your name in the actual comment (as shown by the bottom arrow in step 2).



Step 5) click the orange "PUBLISH YOUR COMMENT" button.

SEE HOW SIMPLE THAT IS?!!!!
Mmmmm....I'm so hungry! I would love some chocolate right about now!!!

P.S. You can comment on past blogs too! Wow!